DNI ADMIRAL BLAIR ADDRESSES THE MORAL ISSUE

In a letter to the entire intelligence community (not the press release), Blair had this to say about torture:

Those methods, read on a bright, sunny, safe day in April 2009, appear graphic and
disturbing. As the President has made clear, and as both CIA Director Panetta and I have stated, we will not use those techniques in the future . I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.